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Invariably, the subject was brought up at today's Wales Press conference, when full-backs Chris Gunter and Neil Taylor were put in front of the media.

But they each argued it was more a case of rooting for the underdogs during the last 16 clash in Nice. Gunter also declared Wales' pride poured out at officially becoming the last Home Nations team standing in the tournament.

Asked if the Welsh players had regrets, Gunter replied: "It may be easy to see it as being slightly over the top, but it wasn’t meant to be that way.

"If you asked the squad as a whole, from a selfish point of view we’re proud to be last Home Nations team left in the tournament. We've come a fair way and football has a funny manner of bringing out your emotions.

Iceland players celebrate knocking England out of Euro 2016

"But it wasn’t meant to be over the top. It certainly wasn’t meant to come out that way, more a case that it's fantastic to see a team written off before the tournament started have reached the quarter-finals.

"If you look at Iceland's journey, they didn’t sneak into the tournament, they are here on merit through a tough qualifying group.

"They are not here to make up the numbers. A lot of the talk will be about the team they beat and not many will focus on what Iceland did really well.

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"It's a bit similar to us, a smaller country doing well and it's fantastic for football. Everyone enjoys an underdog doing well, like with Leicester winning the Premier League."

Team-mate Taylor backed up Gunter, saying: “As a squad we’ve followed the underdogs, like Iceland and Albania. It was half celebrations because of how well Iceland have done. We’ve supported the underdogs.